aan 


Cap pe» Cap SpE D SAC ce 
(QE TIOGA GEV, ASS 


f See edenominational Progress 
In Christianizing the Indians 
of the United States 


Report 


of the 


Committee on Indian Missions 
of the 


Home Missions Council 


1915 


yyy Z 
QA eh AAS 


‘SQdJAIOS 3B SJUBPUI}IB IB[NZe1 pus “g “§ PUB YoINYGD Jo WeIpIyyo ‘gJUBdTUNUIMIOD [[B epnyoUy szus19qpyV ft 

‘g[o0yog JO SUIPBVoy JopuN pejJ1oder es0y} ydeoxe seeAO[duIs UOISST PouyepsOUn [1B ov siodjaH 4 

“pazJUBSIO SOYINYD OU NG ‘PoST{GvISA SUOTSSTA IO POY 91B SodTAdoS o1OYAd goov[d 918 SUOT}BIS » 

“** 990'% LIE 99 °° TLL'LE STF QLT'L9 “** GOO'TS Z2c SST Tes GIs SPS 09F a aR SO pease et arr ne cae ead LEAL Bi 


wee eee eee ee eco 002 ¥ 00z eee ZSL eee 15 t Z ra z Zz OS eceeecccvvesceecs uBlieyAqsolg peu 
eee eee eee oe eee eee T OST eee $P eee eee eve T vE L Ce Cee reeeeseeseseseeseeeseee BoLIOULy 
JO JUBUIAOD UOISST “SuUBAG YSTpIMgG 
a 6 c ie ee2 QT € 00F eee FL OOS | Le SOCKET € ie es ie RS sire sires UBIO} AQSoIg pow10jory 
eaCbr ae rie age to OS T OF. pe 6 te tiny Stenson E T T T ‘*(ueuliey) “§ “0 Ul qounyO peuls1ojoy 
Seas. eee e008: L oot <°* 008, 9 or st G L 9 L ccccc  Bopeury UT Going) pew4ojowd 
“** get go SE °° OOS'T *8 OO0O'OT °° 2869 19 co oth «Oat =«@T OS creer! edoostdg| JuByzso}01g 
eee cee CL it eee 009, ZL 006 'T eee 00S, SHG) BOON i] G SS Vee i iusis setae Mises tiel sist» uieyynog ‘uuliayAqsed 
“2° s9T'T 1G SE $0" aSIG'L “SPE GISSE °°: S868 Bhe0s- cy €G GIL PSE LG ct  UIOYWON ‘uvyqoyAqsoid 
eee oe are ee ee ey BOs A eee 00L Sica SOO 9 5 sie aeeep oe ++ £yaTv0g uvisyqyn'y "SUBAT UBISIMION 
eee cee Pre oe I) ooo bee eee eee were T. SOO OG Ty fee 64 eeeeeteoceeeeoees URIOUIN]Y UeISaMION 
a, OBL see ee eee OOT } cz ede ae L Sl cht TE ht OL Titi ueyBpossy UbIpUT TeUCTEN 
eee eee eee ee eee FIs 9 889'T eee 218. OL Ke eee 8 98 eee g PETS Ok ees RENE Dacor nooee 2 UBIABIOW 
Oe ae Ree ae ee BS POST bee OLS Cee ae eee g CT co «6 TTT Tung ‘Tedoostdg™ IsTPOUIN 
ore ses gg GCS OGLE... Gh «0009s ** 0's SSE Lk OF, Ge Gott Tedoosydy IsTpoqiW 
ee cesiate wee Fe ges gg 2 09¢ Ser er rs z “** 2F IL 9 F trecceceecseseeesseresessrs® aamOUUeW 
te CO ¥ Jae 2005 4 006 ee OGE ¥ 9 ge a ‘4 4 Toe te POUACe FUL0 FeUBIog NTs 
pace T Ge ol So) ¥ 00, ae OS fete 3 See 9 cA F ccc MOSS “SuBAq Juepuedepuy 
ite = OG vee fe oe gop OF 00g T= ts. O8e: reg ae SE OT OL en eae ieee SPOOL 
CES OLE eh SG. Var roo. TL 25000 See beayloee ee ¥ 8 ED BON 8 ete ae eet se BROT RSet eU0,) 
“+ 06 $ z ot O08 rc 009 “+ 6 2 Tt ce G Z Zoretstesesessesesss pauojoy UBYSG 
eee eve $ T eee eee eee eee eee eee eve eve eee eee eee eee ee Cee reer eereeesesseses ureqjnNog “asndegq 
ote Gee BR GA OCCT OS COREL SOV 0a CL 66 Ole a SEL udoqWION “syded 
2 mn 
elz | gle}? |elee| F/Z(E/ 2 (22 lel e 
4 = mS| = ial ct mn 4 ct pe =a & a ct 
Gr) ay DS i) oO Bi ) jars oO q 4 eo Z oe $9 =a le 
a! oO Bolh | & © Se ae = © o © 1o | o Sy lowtzyed pst sejao0g pue spirog 
oa| n mM aS) ° ° i 
4 ° ° aa i=] =a 
quamjoy | 7 2| & quemjore S | ES | syweoymnume venti ens | 2 | 2 |.% 
[orwg B = [orwy 3 @ Ly ‘D | pauoyssymmo)}| pausepig 
mn Mm 


VIG SA.LV.LS CALINA FAL 
JO SHHOIYOHO LNV.LSALOUd AHL FO SNOISSIN NVIGNI AHL JO SOLLSTLVALS 


THE HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL 


CHARLES L. THOMPSON, D.D., Chairman WILLIAM T. DEMAREST, Secretary 
156 Fifth Avenue, New York City 25 East 22d Street, New York City 
ITS ITS AIM 


CONSTITUENTS The Evangelization 


The Evangelical of America 


Denominations 
Through Their 
National Boards and 
Societies 


ITS METHODS 


By Counsel and 
Co-operation 


Report of the Committee on Indian Missions 
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the 


Home Missions Council, January 12-14, 1915 


THE AMERICAN INDIANS, SERVING AND SERVED 


A distinct new era for the increasing race of the Indians 
of America is at hand. ‘The Indians are undoubtedly in- 
creasing in numbers, and have been more than holding their 
own for several decades. This statement is contrary to the 
widespread and common impression that this is a vanishing 
race. In two senses the prevailing impression represents 
correctly the existing conditions, namely, that the Indians are 
mingling their blood to a considerable extent with that of 
the white race, and that they are merging into the common 
life and general white civilization of our country more and 
more; but they are not becoming extinct nor decreasing in 
population, and to represent them as a decadent or vanishing 
people when they are increasing every decade in numbers is 
quite misleading. It has been very aptly stated, that “they 
are not going out from us,—they are coming among us.” 
The Office of Indian Affairs in its latest printed report, gave 
the figures as 323,403 Indians in the United States. In- 
cluding the natives of Alaska there are over 350,000 of this 
race in America. 


Mission Opportunity 


Never before have Indian missions presented greater diffi- 
culties, or demanded larger effort than today. The govern- 
ment policies of abolishing Indian agencies, allotting lands 
in severalty, rapidly removing restrictions on Indian lands, 


4 INDIAN MISSIONS 


and breaking up tribal relations and heathen customs, have 
been ushering in a new epoch for this race. Paganism is 
losing its last hold, and consequently readjustments are 
made necessary in our Christian enterprise. The Indians 
need to be served by the churches in this period of readjust- 
ment to new conditions, and also need to be summoned to 
serve themselves, and to bear a larger share of the burden 
of evangelizing their own people. 


Mission Accomplishments and Advances 

The past year of activity for the Indian mission cause 
presents striking illustrations of advancement along both 
lines. Your Committee beg. leave to present some of these 
features of the work under the title, ““The American Indians, 
serving and served.” Brief references to the progress of the 
work of the denominations that have recently reported will 
be of interest. The Reformed Churches present a substantial 
advance which deserves first mention. 

The Christian Reformed Board, with headquarters in Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, has enlarged its boarding school at Reho- 
both, N. M. to accommodate 75 pupils, and during the year 
ten converts were received into communion of the Church. 
Five stations are being occupied with ministers in charge. 
Among the Zufii pueblos an ordained missionary, a day school 
teacher, field matron, and Y. M. C. A. worker, with a school 
and the publication of a monthly paper, are maintained. 
This is certainly a very creditable, well equipped work of this 
denomination. 

The Reformed Church in America (Dutch Reformed) is 
completing the Walter C. Roe Memorial Mission for the 
Jicarilla Apaches at Dulce, N. M. A chapel and parsonage 
are almost finished, and a lay worker, a Bible reader, and 
missionary and his wife, are in charge. The Fort Sill Ap- 
aches, removed to the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, 
are receiving the devoted attention of this church, which has 
befriended and evangelized these Indians for years. Per- 
manent buildings are to be erected. 


The Reformed Church in the U. S. (German Reformed) 
carries on its work at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, under 
the auspices of its Board of Foreign Missions in connection 
with the Synod of the Northwest. 

The Baptist Missions at Bacone College, and at the Chey- 
enne-Arapahoe school in Oklahoma, have had deep interest 


HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL 5 


aroused by special meetings. Over thirty new members were 
baptised at the Bacone school, and forty-nine Indian pupils 
made profession of faith at the special services for the Chey- 
ennes and Arapahoes. The Baptist Board in New York 
further reports;—‘‘The mission work among the Crows has 
been greatly prospered in Pryor, Montana, where a church 
house is to be built in the spring. Large accessions in 
membership are reported. The work among the Sac and 
Fox Indians in Oklahoma, opened at the urgent request of 
the Home Missions Council, has been abundantly blessed. 
Men steeped in sin and heathenism have been converted, and 
the membership of the church seems to be well established in 
the Christian life. A church house has been built among the 
Mono Indians of California, and also another among the Sac 
and Fox tribe.” 

The secretaries of the American Missionary Association 
(Congregational), have recently reported the largest addi- 
tions to their Indian churches for 1914 that have been re- 
ceived for several years. An appropriation has been secured 
for the development of a model farm on the Rosebud Reserva- 
tion in connection with the Central Mission headquarters, 
and buildings and improvements are now under erection. A 

new Congregational Mission has also been opened at Fort 
Bidwell, California. 

The Presbyterian Church (U.S. A.) has established a new 
hospital work at the Carriso Mission among the Navajos, 
65 miles from the railway, and arrangements for the joint 
control with the Congregational Board of the Santee Bible 
Training Department in South Dakota have been completed. 

New fields have been occupied in southeastern Utah among 
absolutely neglected Indians of the Ute and Navajo tribes, 
and in one of the superstitious semi-pagan pueblos of New 
Mexico, among the Lac du Flambeau Chippewas of Wis- 
consin, and a medical mission station established at Red 
Rock, Arizona. 


The Southern Presbyterian Board (U. 8S.) in Atlanta, re- 
ports twenty-one Indian churches with fifteen missionaries. 
Goodland school for the Choctaws of Oklahoma, which has 
been sometimes referred to as a denominational institution 
receiving Government appropriations, is no longer under 
the jurisdiction of this church. The Board makes no appro- 
priation for its support, but commends it to the friends of 
the Indians for voluntary contributions. 


6 INDIAN MISSIONS 


The Methodist Episcopal Board in Philadelphia, has appro- 
priated almost $10,000 for Indian work located in fifteen 
conferences of the church. This denomination has combined 
white and Indian fields under the same pastoral care and in 
preaching circuits more than others. 

The Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at 
Nashville, Tenn., reports expectation of enlargement of its 
work for the coming year. 

Your committee would call attention to the neglected 
tribes tabulated for consideration of the Societies ready to 
undertake new work, and would urge the entering of neediest 
fields, rather than the crowding into fields for which sister 
churches are at work, 

The Executive Committee of the Friends reports from 
Philadelphia their beneficent efforts continued for ten bands 
of Indians in Oklahoma, and in several Government board- 
ing schools. 

The eighteen organizations in our membership, and the 
sixteen national societies engaged in Indian work, not in- 
cluded in the Council, represent a large force, and an exten- 
sive undertaking along varied lines of Indian uplift. 

The American Bible Society, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. 
C. A., and the National Indian Association, are deserving 
of particular mention of their activities for the Indian cause 
in which all of our denominations share. 

The Indian Academy, or Training School, for the estab- 
lishment of which Rev. Henry Roe Cloud is laboring, will 
soon be launched with a small equipment, the location prob- 
ably being at Wichita, Kansas. The trustees and directors 
and principal teacher have been selected for this institution. 

Ecumenical Indian Missions 

The Indian Committee of the Home Missions Council has 
held three meetings during the year, culminating on October 
19th, in a general conference of representatives of Protestant 
organizations engaged in work for the Indians. The atten- 
dance and interest surpassed expectations, and for the first 
time all of the various religious and philanthropic organiza- 
tions engaged in work for the Indians, with the exception 
of the Roman Catholics, were invited for united counsel. The 
American Bible Society, Council of Women for Home Mis- 
sions, Indian Rights Association, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.C.A., 
and many of the denominational Boards were represented. 
The duty and task for Protestantism is definite, and the 


HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL 7 


united forces are better organized for co-operative effort 
than ever before in the history of American missions. 

The last man whom we would have thought of to serve 
as the agent of drawing our divided Protestant sects into 
unity and concerted effort is the American Indian. But the 
unifying of the Indian missionary undertakings of all evan- 
gelical denominations and allied Christian organizations, is 
actually being realized. 

The meeting was called by your Committee an Indian 
Conference, intended to be a round table discussion for 
practical planning in the united interests of all evangelical 
Christian forces. 

Publicity 

A series of conferences and public meetings was proposed 
for the most suitable time during the winter, for the pre- 
senting of the missionary work among the Indians to the 
constituencies and contributors of the various denominations 
engaged in Christian effort for this race. The plan has 
not been carried out in any united effort yet, but it is hoped 
that the denominations separately will conduct this publicity 
to make known their Indian work and increase interest in it. 

It is gratifying that the Indian is one of the special topics 
of interdenominational mission study for this year. The text 
books are having a large sale, and reports have been received 
of an unusual interest, and an inquiring spirit regarding Pro- 
testant Indian work, 

Self-Sup port 

More and more as the number of converts to the Christian 
faith increases, the Indians are learning to contribute to their 
own church and mission effort. It is a lesson not easily or 
readily learned by a people coming out of absolute paganism, 
and out of a primitive life in which generosity and altruistic 
motives had never been cultivated. 

The Dakotas of the plains indicate the service which evan- 
gelical tribes are rendering in maintaining their own religious 
life. One of the three Protestant churches which is well 
established in work for the Dakotas reports the following 
statistics for last year. Ordained Indian ministers 17, ad- 
ditional Indian helpers under commission of the Board 15, 
contributions for church expenses $6,429.00, to the Board 
of Home Missions $2,985.00, to the missionary and benevo- 
lent objects $2,000.00; total, $11,414.00. 


8 INDIAN MISSIONS 


At the Student Volunteer Convention at Kansas City, Mo. 
sixteen Indian pupils who were present, expressed their con- 
viction that the greatest need of the Indian today is Christian 
civilization, and pledged their lives and service to the Christ- 
ian uplift of their race. 


A Question of Comity 


Three of the national Boards in the Home Missions 
Council now have presented for their consideration the ques- 
tion of comity on Indian fields where two of these Boards 
are rendering financial aid. The third denomination is new 
reported as planning definite organized work for the Indians 
of these fields. Large appropriations have already been 
made by the two denominations on the fields, ordained min- 
isters are in charge of the work, new buildings have been 
recently erected, and the two denominations desire to be 
left in undivided possession of the fields. Through zeal of 
local workers of the third denomination, and partly through 
solicitation of a few disaffected Indians of one of the tribes, 
another church is now planning to organize and to introduce 
denominational rivalry. The tribes are not numerous. One 
national Board appropriated $7,900.00 for salaries and 
mission hospital, the other $3,300.00 for salaries and 
$2,200.00 for conduct of the work, during this fiscal year. 
Does this not furnish a good illustration of the need through 
the Home Missions Council of a basis of comity and agree- 
ment as to mission grants for fields already provided for by 
sister churches? 


Suggested Plan of Agreement 


Shall not the churches be in advance of secular world 
kingdoms in reaching mutual understandings? The states- 
manship of today is proposing an agreement among the 
nations which may suggest for the church three lines of 
agreement among the denominations in the Home Mission 
enterprise. 

Is not some basis of comity feasible as herewith suggested? 
First. The Societies of the Home Missions Council shall 
mutually agree to respect the organizations at work, the pos- 
session of mission fields occupied, the vital interests and the 
Christian welfare of each other. 


Second. In cases of dispute as to possession of a field, or 
claims of disregard of comity, reference shall be had to the 


HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL 9 


Executive Committee or a special committee of the Home 
Missions Council, before financial grants and approval of the 
establishing of new missions or stations shall be determined. 

Third. The moral influence and the prayerful efforts of the 
Council shall be exerted both with the denominations within 
this organization and those without it, to promote comity 
and mutual understanding and goodwill, and to carry into 
effect the decisions and advices of Committees to whom mat- 
ters of dispute have been referred. 


Services of the Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland 


The Executive Committee, in accordance with the au- 
thority given by the Council at its last annual meeting, voted 
$1,000 as a retainer for the legal services of the Hon. H. B. F. 
Macfarland at Washington, D. C., and Mr. Macfarland has 
continued his valuable and efficient work. In the matter of 
the use of Indian treaty and trust funds for sectarian schools, 
and in other cases brought to his attention by the Committee, 
our counsel has been active, and as we will hear his report 
today, the Committee only expresses the conviction of the 
great value of Mr. Macfarland’s services and the care he 
has given to our Indian interests. 


Relations to the Government Office of Indian Affairs 


A notable gain to our whole Indian cause has been the con- 
fidence established, and the hearty relations with the Com- 
missioner of Indian Affairs, the Hon. Cato Sells, and his 
associates of the Indian Office at Washington. 

Frequent personal conferences by members of the Com- 
mittee and our legal representative, days spent at the Capital, 
and correspondence involving interests which urgently called 
for adjustment between the Government and the missions, 
have been required. But every mission board has profited or 
may profit by this open and cordial approach which our 
Christian Commissioner has afforded us. Over 30,000 Indian 
children and youth are in schools under the Federal authority ; 
most of these are boarding pupils under instruction of both 
secular teachers and Protestant missionaries. How essential 
it is that hearty and generous recognition of the work of 
each of these agencies, Church and State, should be mutually 
established and strengthened. Your Committee would stress 
the value of our cultivating these relations if we really intend 
to carry forward Protestant effort for the coming genera- 
tion and the coming leaders of the Indian race. The Roman 


10 INDIAN MISSIONS 


Catholic Church maintains a Bureau of Missions with offices 
in the city of Washington. 


Statistical Reports 


If the Council regards it of value, your Committee is pre- 
pared to furnish as appendices to this report complete tables 
of the Indian tribes served by each denomination, the sta- 
tistical summaries of stations, mission workers, membership, 
and Sunday school enrolment furnished by the Boards this 
last year, and a list of the neglected and partially evangelized 
tribes and Indian communities of our country. 


Present Duty 


As a program of action for our denominational activities, 
the urgent need is commended of the following plans: 

To speedily evangelize the 45,000 Indians of our Christian 
land who have no missionaries or churches, and the 175,000 
who are not yet adherents of any denomination. 

To enlarge the number and capacity of Christian schools 
where the Bible is taught daily, and to make the atmosphere 
of the schools that of the Christian home. 

To establish an industrial and institutional work for the 
neediest tribes and to employ Christian lay workers, field 
missionaries and housekeepers, to improve the material con- 
ditions and the home life of the Indians. 

To encourage the Indians everywhere in America to adjust 
themselves to the new conditions and strange relations into 
which they have been forced, and to help them under God 
to work out their own salvation and destiny in American life. 


Signed for the Committee, 


T. C. Morrett, 
C. L. Wuite, 
H. P. Dovetass. 


On motion the report was accepted. 

On motion it was voted to refer the paragraphs in the 
report of the Committee on Indian Missions entitled “A 
Question of Comity” to the Council’s Committee on Comity 
and Co-operation. 

On motion it was resolved to print in the Proceedings of 
the Council the statistical tables of Indian Missions referred 
to by the Chairman of the Committee. 


HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL Il 


APPENDIX 
INDIAN MISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 


Denominations and the Tribes for which They Have Provided 
Mission Work 


Baptist, Northern: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, 
Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Hopi, Kiowa, Na- 
vajo, Sac and Fox, Caddo, Delaware, Mono, Wichita, Nez 
Percé, St. Regis, Seminole, Seneca, Southern Ute, Umatilla. 

Baptist, Southern: Chippewa, Choctaw, Chickasaw, 
Cherokee, Osage, Pawnee. 

Christian Reformed: Navajo, Zufii. 

Congregational: Chippewa, Crow, Sioux, Skokomish. 

Church of the Nazarene: Mohave. 

Friends: Alaska, Cherokee, Iowa, Kickapoo, Modoc, 
Osage, Oto, Ottawa, Seneca, Shawnee, Wyandot. 

Gospel Union: Navajo. 

Independent: Bunning, Lake of California, Navajo. 

Lutheran: Munsee, San Carlos, Stockbridge, White Moun- 
tain Apache. 

Mennonite: Arapaho, Cheyenne, Hopi, Pala. 

Methodist Episcopal: Chippewa, Klamath, Konkau, Lake, 
Modoc, Mohawk, Noosak, Oneida, Onondaga, Ottawa, Paiute, 
Piegan, Pomo, St. Regis, Seneca, Shoshoni, Washo, Yakima, 
Yokaia, Yuma. 

Methodist Episcopal, South: Caddo, Cherokee, Chicka- 
saw, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Kiowa, Nez Percé, Seminole. 

Moravian: Banning, Martinez, Rincon, La Jolla and 
Pechanga. 

National Indian Association: Chukchansi, Korusi, Navajo, 
Oneida, Pluma, Tuolumne, Machoopda. 

Norwegian Evangical Lutheran: Oneida. 

Norwegian Synod: Chippewa. 

Presbyterian, Northern: Arapaho, Bannock, Cayuga, 
Cayuse, Cherokee, Chico, Chippewa, Creek, Digger, Fox, 
Hupa, Iowa, Kaibab, Kickapoo, Laguna, Makah, Maricopa, 
Menominee, Moapa, Mohave, Mohave-Apache, Navajo, Nez 
Percé, Nisqualli, Omaha, Oneida, Onondaga, Ottawa, Paiute, 
Papago, Pima, Pit River, Pueblo, Puyallup, Quinaielt, 
Seminole, Seneca, Shinnecock, Shivwit, Shoshoni, Sioux, 


12 INDIAN MISSIONS 


Southern Ute, Spokane, Tonto, Tuscarora, Umatilla, Wala- 
pai, Walla-walla, Western Shoshoni. 

Presbyterian, Southern: Chickasaw, Choctaw. 

Protestant Episcopal: Chippewa, Oneida, Pala, Seneca, 
Sioux, Siskiyou, Skokomish, Thlinglet, Navajo, Karok, 
Seminole, Shoshoni, Ponca, Ute, Onondaga, Cattaraugus, Da- 
kota, Cheyenne, Winnebago, Arapaho. 

Reformed in America: Apache, Cheyenne and Arapaho in 
Oklahoma, Fort Sill, Mescalero-Apache, Winnebago. 

Reformed in U. S.: Apache. 

Reformed Presbyterian: Oneida. 

Roman Catholic: All in Arizona and New Mexico (except 
Hopi and Apache), all in Oklahoma (except Seminoles), 
Arapaho, Cayuga, Chippewa, Cour d’Alene, Klamath, Meno- 
minee, Mission in California, Nez Percé, Ottawa, Potawatomi, 
Puyallup, Shoshoni in Wyoming, Sioux, St. Regis, Southern 
Ute, Stockbridge, Tulalip, Umatilla, Walla-walla. 

Swedish Evangelical: Alaskan. 

United Presbyterian: Meskwakiag (Fox), Warm Spring 
in Oregon. 


NEGLECTED AND PARTIALLY EVANGELIZED 
INDIANS OF THE UNITED STATES 


TRIBE LocaTIon Number of 
ARIZONA Indians 


Chemehuevi, Colorado River Agency, Parker, Arizona 151 
Walapai, Truxton Canyon and Northwestern Arizona 483 
Havasupai, CataractiCanyon ssi r.:.a ma eee 169 
Navajo, northern part of reservation (see New Mexico 
Navajos), number unprovided for, estimated at.. 3,000 
Apache: Coyoteros, 556; on San Pedro River, 300; on 


lower;Gila River,;300 soe ee oe ee eee 1,156 
Apache—Geronimo, and (Cipique.sf) 7 ae eee 700 
Papago, nomadic and in village, Southern Arizona, 

number unprovided for, estimated at.......... 1,000 
Apache-Mohave, in Rio Verde Valley and southeast of 

Prescott, tuyessveis 0 ote ee ne eee 400 

CALIFORNIA 


Tribes and bands north of Tehachapi Pass, unprovided 
for,’ estimated alta ems eae een ee ee 5,000 


HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL 13 
COLORADO 
Southern Ute—Capote and Moacha...........-.-- 367 
Wiminuche Ute, near Navajo Springs............- 493 
IDAHO 
Moir a: Ajene and, Spokane> 24/4) 3). eva. aie 614 
KANSAS 
Potawatomi and Ponca, Prairie Band.............. 745 
POW OSADO TA FONCY Ss les discs kcal cae eae emmeiete 231 
MICHIGAN 
Bae war Ori OL Turon eit. les cotta ae Lie eeeeen 78 
Chippewa and Ottawa, partially provided for (esti- 
ia terOr Une Van gelized Jain cs ae «metro ene 1,500 
MINNESOTA 


Bois Forte Chippewa, Nett Lake and Vermillion Lake 646 
Lake Superior and Pigeon River, unprovided for, esti- 


Tina COU OAM Steen Ac feted falofeeetere «le ole «ate eevee Cnanatens 2,000 
MONTANA 
Blackfeet, unprovided for, estimated at............ 1,000 
Northern Cheyenne, of Tongue River, unprovided for, 
Estima led gates clon ete feta eae aye a ante 600 
Flathead, unprovided for, estimated at............. 1,200 
NEVADA 
Tribes and bands not under Agencies, unprovided for, 
‘OSUALTTEN 8 WEP Yop SIERRA TE Oe RUA PEO AE OT 2,000 
Paiute, Washo, and Winnemucca, near Reno, Nevada. 275 
Maem LOrte vic Permittee ans Ale 4 sialeg aereheiete ake 336 
Monpan iver, Tear Lies. V CPAs | 6.6! Wels, «ic leeusrare dhs iedenaie 125 
NEW MEXICO 
Pueblo of fifteen villages, partially provided for, esti- 
mated unevanwelized. 35/5050) hb gis onretabamere ates 4,000 


Navajo of northwestern part of Territory, partially 
provided for, estimated unevangelized (see also 


BASAL) patent. Wek s teks. ©, sions «a ee syetcreuemel ue aan 1,500 
Peay AJ OROn CANON GIL, 4... cnttispayere oa vo) ccslolan etal alel ate 195 
NEW YORK 

Iroquois, Cattaraugus Reservation, unevangelized, 
CRICTUVCSa WA ER AG ae Ore en yet CPHL 1 al 400 
NORTH CAROLINA 
Eastern Cherokee, unprovided for, estimated at...... 600 


NORTH DAKOTA 
Chippewa and Sioux, unprovided for, estimated at... 800 


14 INDIAN MISSIONS 
OKLAHOMA 

Peoria and Miami, partially provided for.......... 359 
Osage, partially providedtior® faene ose 2) nee 800 
Ponca, partiallysprovided fore. sc seen eee 591 
Oto and Missouri, partially provided for........... 435 
Tonkawa of Ponca Agency, 48; Kaws, 158......... 206 
Sac:and Fox, 5613 [owago0 3-0. os Sees 641 


Tribes of Eastern Oklahoma—Kiowa, Modoc, Ottawa, 
Quapaw, Eastern Shawnee, Seneca, Wyandot— 


unprovidedi tor. estimated sat... accutane eee 800 
Potawatomi, Shawnee, Kickapoo ...............-- 600 
Cherokee, full-blood communities, partially provided 

for, estimated unevangelized ..............-- 2,000 

OREGON 
siletz, GrandeRonde, Oregon). 14 4.01 4s se ee 429 
Modoc, Paiute, and Pit River bands.....°.......... 375 
Scattered bands on Public Domain, near Roseburg, 
unprovided: for, -estimated at.» i.s25.52 6s ocean 1,000 


SOUTH DAKOTA 
Ogalala Sioux, Pine Ridge, estimated unevangelized.. 1,000 


UTAH 

Ute, Uinta, Uncompahgre, White River, unprovided 

for, estimated at amen dais bs ysis ate Ae iaeea eee 800 
Paiute, scattered: bandsan via or. es ere ee 370 

WASHINGTON 
Nez Percé, Joseph’s and Moses’ Band............. 414 
Okina gan Vice Woe Pe Ae Glee, ta ON ne ATS 
Quileuté.ofNesh Bay iii secisnt fies erase 229 
Skokomish’s \s0i5 i eteleeho Wes elec aicte MONE tie, Mie anian a 194 
scattered Bands. vee aia acy a cca apres en ee 800 
Tulalapiics extii.ie Cie ah the ete alent Doce antes 400 
WISCONSIN 

Chippewa, unprovided for, estimated at............ 1,500 
Menominee, umprovided 1oren. = casual en ee 800 
Winnebago, unprovided tor... enact ee 500 
Number of Tribes and Bands needing Christian 

Missions’ 22/0 ui on nen in ten ee 78 
*Kstimated number of Indians unprovided for....... 46,312 


* As another method of showing the number of Indians 
for whom provision has not been made, it must be remem- 


HOME MISSIONS COUNCIL 15 


bered that, all churches combined, Protestant and Roman 
Catholic, claim only 175,000 adherents. This leaves a total 
of non-Christian Indians in the United States and Alaska 
of 177,000. 


MR. MACFARLAND’S ADDRESS 
Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland addressed the Council in sub- 


stance as follows: 


Mr. Macfarland stated that besides correspondence and 
conferences with the chairman of the Committee on Indian 
Affairs of the Home Missions Council and other members 
of the Committee and also conferences with the Commissioner 
of Indian Affairs and other officers of the Interior Depart- 
ment and members of the Committees on Indian Affairs of 
Congress and other members of the Government, including 
a very considerable expenditure of time and about a variety 
of subjects, he has been devoting special attention during 
the year to efforts to prevent the continued use of Indian 
tribal funds for private or sectarian schools. These efforts 
involving the education of the Indian youth on the reserva- 
tions and hence the future of these Indian tribes were based 
on these principles, first, that the Government should provide 
in its own schools for adequate facilities for these Indian 
youth; second, that no part of the Government funds should 
be diverted to private or sectarian schools directly or under 
the claim that the funds were treaty funds of the Indians, 
when in reality they were simply gratuitous appropriations 
of Government money, and third, the separation of church 
and state in Government education. 


He gave the history of the matter, speaking of the declara- 
tion of Congress in 1896, that appropriations for sectarian 
schools should cease, followed by the arrangement made by 
the Indian Office in 1905, under which upon the petition of 
individual Indians their per capita shares of trust and treaty 
funds might be utilized for the education of their children 
in sectarian schools and the litigation that followed, ending 
in the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in 
the case of Quickbear vs. Leupp, 210 U. 8. 79, in 1908, hold- 
ing that as to trust funds and as to treaty funds and in the 
particular case the agreement expiring February 10, 1910, 
between the Sioux and the United States, extending for twenty 


16 INDIAN MISSIONS 


years the agreement of 1890, the per capita shares of petiti 
ing Indians might be used for sectarian schools. He said tha 
since February 10, 1910, there was no agreement or treaty 
between the Sioux and the United States and that the practice 
had been continued under a clause, repeated annually, in the 
Indian Appropriation Act, purporting to extend the elapsed 
agreement for one year, a unilateral agreement which could 
not be regarded as legal. Hy 
Three important episodes marked the treatment of the 
matter during the year. , 
First, June 1, 1914, protest was made against the oe NS 
posal that members of the Sioux tribe participate in the dis- atch. ag 
tribution of money available for the education of the Sioux — ries 
Indians in Government or sectarian schools in cases where 
such members had therefore received their pro rata share of oi 
funds due to the tribe from the United States in fulfilment of i 
treaty obligations. 7 
This protest prevented the adoption of such proposal. 
Second, On the 15th of December, 1914, protest was made aa 
against the application of certain Chippewas at Red Lake, ps 
e 


+ 


ere Tey. 


Minn. for the use of a certain portion of the tribal funds for 
a non-Governmental school at Red Lake which had halted 
the matter. 


Third, That the chairman of the House Committee on In- ae 
dian Affairs having stated in writing that his bill to prevent cf 
the use of any of the treaty, trust or other funds for sectarian im: 
schools or religious institutions without being specifically 
appropriated therefor by Congress, could not pass at the 
present Congress, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs was 
notified that the whole question of using the so-called Indian 
treaty funds for this purpose would be formally brought be- 
fore him in a protest, which should be the basis for further 
proceedings, if denied. #: 

The presentation of the matter awaited the decision in ee 
the Red Lake case, which is still pending. . 

Mr. Macfarland stated that in all these matters he had 
been co-operating with the Indian Rights Association and 
especially its agent in Washington, Mr. S. M. Brosius, and ty 
that the protests had been made jointly. He also stated that RS 
he had co-operated with Dr. H. K. Carroll, representative 
in Washington of the Federal Council of Churches. Vins 


